Let's talk about drugs.

The drug war has been going on for decades now and it has been nothing but a total and complete utter failure in the way of trying to prevent people from obtaining, doing, or cutting back on drugs. Yet those in power want to continue with the farce; at the expense of the people.

There are many folks who claim that they support basic human rights, but they also on the other hand will support initiating violence against people because of their personal choices that they don't agree with; like their choice to do drugs. This appears to be a clear contradiction.

Drug users and drug sellers do not deserve violence to be initiated against them.

When it comes to drugs, most people think of cocaine, heroine, crack etc. But what about those other drugs? Like sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine etc? Those drugs can just as easily promote addiction and cause health damage, which in-turn places a burden on health care systems. They can also be a trigger for fueling conflict and violence, especially alcohol which has been a factor involved in many deaths.

For those who believe that cannabis users, cocaine users, and heroine users etc, deserve to die because of their personal life choices, then perhaps you should also consider incorporating other drug users into that life view as well.

But let's be honest, they aren't about to do that because that would include pretty much everybody into their anti-drug view.

The war on drugs is more accurately described as a war on individual choice. And because of this war, tens of thousands of people have unjustly lost their lives. To add insult, drug use in the US has increased overall since they first launched their anti-drug war campaign.

If you own your own body then you get to decide what you put into it, that is an extension of your freedom. And for other people to think that they have a say in what you should or shouldn't put into your body, is a direct violation of a person's natural rights.

Trying to impose heavy costs on other human beings in order to try and protect them from their own life choices has certainly caused quite the violent mess over the years. Many drug users engage in an act that we might not personally agree with, but they are often doing something that hurts nobody other than themselves.

Taking individual drug users who are not harming anyone other than themselves, and then turning them into criminals or even worse killing them, is absolutely disgraceful.

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